New organizational structure to the forums/ need mag input

Guys, this has been on my mind for a while and I would like to deal with it soon. I would like to clean up the main forum listing structure on this page:
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/
As it currently is it is a random string of forums that make no sense. I have been using a forum lately that has really clean groupings and I like it. Here is that forums main listin page.
http://www.reduser.net/forum/forum.php
Now I attempted to do the same with ours on paper. I do not believe that I have all the proper nomenclature, but wanted thoughts, ideas, opinions, etc.

-Main boards
Ski/board
Weather/snow conditions
Slide zone
Tech talk

-Other sports
Sprocket rockets
Surf
Kayak
Fishing

- Connecting
Gear swap
Work or lack of it
Summits
Hook up
Gimp central

-everything else
Music, books, movies
Photo/video talk
Hall of fame
Archive threads

-The rubble
Padded room
Political asshattery

Could we stick padded room into "everything else" or "connecting with people" and have polyass be it's own seperate shithole? Several other boards do that and it's pretty successful at separating out the sewage from the river.

Hard to think of a downside, as it really would only impact that home page? Guessing hitting 'new posts' will just bring up recent posts, like it is now?

Just $.02 on the headers, just a thought, your first draft would work fine as is...

-Snowsporting
ski/board
weather/snow
slide zone

-Answers [resources?]
teck tawk
music/books/movies
photo/video
gimp central

-Connect
padded room
work or lack
summits
hookup

-etc
HOF
archive
PolyAss

I'm use to it as it is now, so it works for me. I'm sure after some bitching and moaning we'll all get used to whatever its updated to.

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Originally Posted by XtrPickels

I'm use to it as it is now, so it works for me. I'm sure after some bitching and moaning we'll all get used to whatever its updated to.

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+1

I regularly look at S/S, TT, GS, Surf, Padded Room, MBM, and photo. The rest might as well not exist as far as I'm concerned. When they're all under one roof I know exactly what I want and can go from one to another by scrolling. If they were in sections like that I'd have to make one more click, which might be more than my finger can handle.

New organization means very little to me. Once thing I would suggest that happens on another forum is you can actually click the whole headers and every subforum in that category will appear newest posts first. So you could essentially get your fix by clicking on just 4 categories but also have the ability to go to each subforum in their own entirety.

Example, they have a category that is like this padded room. It has sub categories like music, computer/gadgets, tv/film, etc. By clicking on the main category you could bring up everything from within all the subforums. But you could also just go to each forum individually.

how can you call the room of padded iceytidbits and boobies rubble??????

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Originally Posted by hop

+1

I regularly look at S/S, TT, GS, Surf, Padded Room, MBM, and photo. The rest might as well not exist as far as I'm concerned. When they're all under one roof I know exactly what I want and can go from one to another by scrolling. If they were in sections like that I'd have to make one more click, which might be more than my finger can handle.

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This. I like how it is. You could keep the list a little shorter and cleaner by including a subfolder on the main forums list that includes forums that TGR wishes to keep noise levels low ie Pollyasshat, Ask TGR, Arhives. That way only a few rarely used forums would take the extra mouse click.

While you're fixing stuff, could you also:

- revise the "new posts" search to generate more than 3 pages (something like 5 or 6 pages would be nice)
- bring back the tags? (please?)

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Originally Posted by TGR420

Main Boards
Ski/board
Weather/snow conditions
Slide zone
Tech talk

Other Sports
Sprocket rockets
Surf
Kayak
Fishing

Connecting
Gear swap
Work or lack of it
Summits
Hook up
Gimp central
Ask TGR

Everything Else
Padded room
Music, books, movies
Photo/video talk
Hall of fame
Archive threads

The Rabble
Political asshattery
(Beer,) Bacon, Farts, and Burps

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FIFY...

It looks good, but move the Padded Room sub-heading under the Everything Else heading, and leave the Polyasshat sub-heading in The Rabble heading (Not Rubble, What'd Barney ever do to you? Don't sully his good name.).

When you decide to do a fishing /whitewater movie can I have a job?
and I think iceman should moderate the padded room and beer bacon burps & farts
I'll concentrate on
TAGS
bRo

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Originally Posted by hop

+1

I regularly look at S/S, TT, GS, Surf, Padded Room, MBM, and photo. The rest might as well not exist as far as I'm concerned. When they're all under one roof I know exactly what I want and can go from one to another by scrolling. If they were in sections like that I'd have to make one more click, which might be more than my finger can handle.

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As i understand it, the forums would still all be under one roof, the 'home' page [the little house symbol to the left of the forum title]. It would still be one click to the home page, then one click to the forum of choice. It's just instead of a long list of forums, they'd be organized into 4-5 groups.

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Originally Posted by El Chupacabra

While you're fixing stuff, could you also:

- revise the "new posts" search to generate more than 3 pages (something like 5 or 6 pages would be nice)
- bring back the tags? (please?)

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Have a request in to look at upping the number of search results displayed, checking on any impacts to servers/reliability. Don't know squat 'bout the tags...;)

While you are reorganizing, bring back the tags

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Originally Posted by Tye 1on

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-Answers [resources?]
teck tawk
music/books/movies
photo/video
gimp central
ASK TGR

-Connect
padded room
work or lack
summits
hookup

-etc
HOF
archive
PolyAss

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I like the resources part it should help some of us jongs learn shit in one easy place. As long as the quick navigation still works it shouldn't make too much of a difference .

Once again, Iscariot nails it. That's twice now. Armageddon is nigh .

The only thing I'd change is re-name PolyAssHat "FULL-BLOWN AIDS!!!" and add a forum where tards can talk brospeak to each other.

iscariot has the best one.

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Originally Posted by Danno

iscariot has the best one.

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Are you sure? I say bring back tags and don't worry about the rest.

I agree padded room needs higher standing. It would be REALLY nice if the new posts search could be customizable so as only to include the sub headings you want. If it is possible but not that big a deal.

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Originally Posted by L7

If it is possible but not that big a deal.

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it's possible now: http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...ost&include=22 will give you only polyasshat. separate with a coma for all sub-forums that you want. for example,

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http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post&include=3,15,13,4

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gives you ski/snowboard, summits, sprocket rocket & kayak. you can get the numbers from the individual forum links in the main forum.

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Originally Posted by concretejungle

Are you sure? I say bring back tags and don't worry about the rest.

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I'm not sure of jack shit. But it sounds like they want to change the organization, and of the suggestions, he had the best. :shrug: I put all of 5 seconds of thought into that conclusion, so it is likely wrong.

Cool, thanks. Poly asshat already got excluded but I may do some fine tuning.

My $0.02: Leave it more or less alone. Fine tuning is fine. Maybe that's why they call it fine? Just:

Combine Summits and Hook Up into "Summits and Hook Up" because the content overlaps -- include that in a main board if you go in that direction.

Personally I could care less about tht but the new photo uploader sucks balls.

I want to be able to post full sized, UPRIGHT photos in line with the text of my post. That's been a huge draw of this place. Now we have to click on each thumbnail to view it full size and that really sucks. Plus, the thing seems to randomly turn pictures on their sides and we have no way to rotate them back.

Think about it, the best thing about the forums is the photo stoke and now that's basically ruined.

And I can't tab to the 'post' button anymore.

We've got bigger fish to fry than the format of the forums menu. That doesn't matter at all, it's not like there's hundreds or even dozens of forums. They're all right there on one page.

When forums get all subdivided it makes them hard to use and fragmented.
I like it the way it is now.

weather/snow conditions is lame. Folks discuss weather in the main ski forum.

either delete it entirely or move it to a minor category.


Gear Swap - should be in the major category

Also, there used to be a lot of social talk in the main forum. it used to be the "chatter" forum.
A few years ago the police decided that anything non-ski had to go in the padded room, which was fine until padded room got parental controls and banned for porno at work.

Maybe create a porno only forum, and let the padded room be the (non-porn) general chatter again. And let it sit in the main forum.

The reason I would put Gear Swap and Chatter/padded room in the main forum category is not that they are ski related, but that they are the core of the history and traffic on the forum.

Folks come here for:
1) skiing, 2) ski gear talk 3)ski swap and 4) social chatter among maggots even if its not ski related.

The last category is why I think the padded room or chatter forum should be brought back. It is fun to discuss current events, share jokes, funny pictures or websites, non-ski stories, etc. (but NOT polyass - it is so great that is relegated to the asshat forum - never change that)

Why bother.Its fine as is.